That Philip the IId, who himself usurped the crown of the Braganzas, should pronounce such a sentence, is not extraordinary.
— from The History of the Revolutions of Portugal by abbé de Vertot

No class of people, here or elsewhere, has ever had opportunity for the training in the scientific attitude and point of view which American farmers may now receive, and on account of the nature and organization of their work they are steadily and surely, if not entirely consciously, adopting the method of science.
— from The Farmer and His Community by Dwight Sanderson

The modern woman is prostrated by the discovery of her own superiority; and she is now engaged in one of those hopeless enterprises which we have regretfully abandoned.
— from The New Woman: An Original Comedy, in Four Acts by Sydney Grundy

sympathise much with your anxiety, but we can only say to you as we say to all who wish to succeed in literary work, you must try and try again for a long time before you will succeed, and success is not even then assured.
— from The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII, No. 357, October 30, 1886 by Various

After the lovely gonfalon Us to out-folly the excess Of your sweet foolhardiness; To adventure like intense Assault against Omnipotence! Give me song, as She is, new, Earth should turn in time thereto!
— from Selected Poems of Francis Thompson by Francis Thompson

The miracle of brilliancy of sea and sky is nowhere excelled in the known world, and, if the raucous sounds of the railway and the electric tram do break the harmony somewhat, there is still left the admirable works of the hand of nature and man, who have here planned together to give an ensemble which, in its appealing loveliness, far outweighs the discord of mundane things.
— from Rambles on the Riviera by M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield

The exact relation of this anthropomorphic imagination to the primitive sacred stocks and stones is not easy to ascertain; but it seems to have tended, on the one hand, to the realisation of the existence of the gods apart from such sacred objects, and thus to reduce the stocks and stones to the position of symbols—a great advance in religious ideals; and, on the other hand, to the transformation of the stocks and stones into human form, not merely by giving them ears and eyes that they might hear and see, but also by making them take the image and character of the deity whom they represented.
— from Religion and Art in Ancient Greece by Ernest Arthur Gardner

The strength of such a serpent is not easily to be imagined; they have an undulating motion, and carry their head erect four or five feet from the ground; their jaws, &c. are capable of inconceivable dilatation.
— from Travels in the interior of Brazil with notices on its climate, agriculture, commerce, population, mines, manners, and customs: and a particular account of the gold and diamond districts. by John Mawe

A cold chill ran over me, and such a sensation I never experienced before, and I hope never to again.
— from The Narrative of William W. Brown, a Fugitive Slave by William Wells Brown